Erlang for Python Programmers?

I’ve been hearing about Erlang for several months now. It has seemed interesting, but up until recently I hadn’t felt any great need to look into it.

Last week, however, my interest was piqued, and I spent much of the weekend reading about Erlang and playing around in its interactive shell. That continued into this week when I decided to buy the new book.

While I’ve been sitting around waiting for the book to show up, I’ve been wondering if there’s an Erlang for Python Programmers tutorial floating around anywhere (I haven’t come across one yet). I’m thinking I might try to put something like that together. I think that will be an interesting challenge as there’s not necessarily an obvious one-to-one correspondence between the two languages.

It’s a functional language, which makes it more interesting in some ways than learning, say, Rubyâ€”in fact, I wouldn’t really need to learn much to start using Ruby, whereas using Erlang will require new ways of thinking about program structure (in terms of functions and processes)